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Wire stripping: what is old is new again

  • Miller Canfield PLC
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 28 2013

Recently, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) was in the news again for stripping original wire details so that payments would go undetected by the U.S

OFAC amends Iranian transactions and sanctions regulations to implement executive orders 13622 and 13628 and new wind-down general license

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2013

On December 26, 2012, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued a final rule (“ITSR Amendments”) to amend the Iranian Transactions and

OFAC designations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 14 2013

On January 9th, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the designation of two Sinaloa Cartel operatives, including a

OFAC advisory on the use of exchange houses and trading companies to evade us economic sanctions against Iran

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • Iran, USA
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  • January 10 2013

Today, OFAC issued an advisory on the use of exchange houses and trading companies to evade US economic sanctions against Iran (the "Advisory"

Office of Foreign Assets Control amends its Iranian transactions and sanctions regulations to authorize wind-down transactions and extension of section 218 deadline under Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act

  • Alston & Bird LLP
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  • Iran, Syria, USA
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  • December 28 2012

On December 26, 2012, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued its long-anticipated "guidance" on Section 218 of the Iran Threat Reduction and

Congress passes new legislation tightening sanctions on Iran

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 21 2012

On December 19, 2012, House and Senate conferees reached agreement on the final language of the Menendez Amendment (SA 3232) (the "Amendment") to the

Standard Chartered receives further fines for breach of U.S. sanctions

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2012

Following the New York Department of Financial Services fine of $340 million in August, on 10 December 2012 Standard Chartered agreed a combined settlement with other U.S. regulators

Your Chinese trading partners’ safe status may impact your payment terms

  • Miller Canfield PLC
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  • China, USA
  • -
  • December 10 2012

Chinese currency (renminbi or RMB) is not an internationally convertible currency

Another shot across the bow for deceptive advertising

  • Locke Lord LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 28 2012

Recently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Trade Commission held a press conference to announce their coordinated effort to protect consumers from misleading advertising

Conflicts between German prohibitions of boycott measures and US anti-terrorism law

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • European Union, Germany, USA
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  • November 20 2012

The European financing market is increasingly faced with the conflict between, on one hand, US anti-terrorism laws imposing obligatory sanctions in line with US foreign policy and, on the other hand, German foreign trade laws which prohibit boycott measures